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I was asked more than once how to produce words instead of numbers in the chapter heading. This is fairly straight forward, but requires patching the chapter macro. I will show how to do this for chapter. However, this works similarly for part, section, and subsection. Loading the required packages First we load the … [Read more…]

Recently I was asked how to produce multiple glossaries in the same document. The glossaries package, which supersedes glossary, provides such functionality. In this post, I primarily focus on adding topic-specific glossaries besides the main glossary and list of acronyms. Links to further readings are given for glossaries package basics as well as for chapter-/section-/equation-wise … [Read more…]

By default, the table of contents (TOC), list of figures (LOF) and list of tables (LOT) are typeset as chapters when using the report document class. However, the level of the heading can be changed. In this post, I will show how to decrease the level of the TOC, LOF, and LOT to section. Similarly, … [Read more…]

I was recently asked if there is a way to reverse the numbering of chapters in a report from n to 1. I didn’t find an easy way to do it which is why I decided to write a short post. Here is the minimal example used to produce the above output. I will explain … [Read more…]

Beamer is a LaTeX document class that provides extensive functionality to create presentations. Here, I will only show the basics and after reading this guide you will be able to create a simple presentation in LaTeX. I am aware there are a lot of tutorials available out there and this is not different from any … [Read more…]